{"id":5991,"date":"2024-07-10T01:52:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2024-07-10T01:52:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:52:42","slug":"southern-bush-fires-21-jan-1939-last-week-the-state-of-victoria-spent-a-terrifying-week-as-bush-fires-were-prevalent-and-raging-fiercely-the-fires-wiped-out-most-of-the-town-of-omeo-yarr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5991","title":{"rendered":"Southern Bush Fires 21 Jan. 1939. \u201cLast week the State of Victoria spent a terrifying week as bush fires were prevalent and raging fiercely. The fires wiped out most of the town of Omeo. Yarr Glen lost 3 private houses, and Warrandyte more than 200.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

SOUTHERN BUSH FIRES (1939, January 21).\u00a0Dayboro Times and Moreton Mail (Qld. : 1937 \u2013 1940; 1945 \u2013 1954)<\/i>, p. 4. Retrieved July 16, 2024, from https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/163722150\/19445197#<\/a><\/p>\n

Last week the State of Victoria spent a terrifying week as bush fires were prevalent and raging fiercely.<\/h3>\n
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So far the bodies of 64 persons have been recovered from the fire areas, and it is feared that many others have perished.<\/div>\n
Between 750 and 1000 private houses have been destroyed, whole settlements have been wiped out, and what were important towns can now show only a few fire blackened houses.<\/div>\n
Some places have been particularly unlucky.<\/div>\n
Noojee, which was totally destroyed In the 1926 fires, was rebuilt only to be destroyed again in the 1932 blaze, is to-day represented by crumpled galvanised iron and a few toppling brick chimneys. The fires wiped out most of the town of Omeo. Yarr Glen lost 3 private houses, and Warrandyte more than 200.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The fire-refugees had terrifying experiences. Some took refuge in dams others in dugouts, and in tunnels used for timber tram tracks and for supplying reticulation services to towns.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A wide area is affected and the police endeavour, where possible, to shoot the stock in danger of being burned alive.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mr. Lyons has announced that the Federal Government will make a special grant to relieve distress in fires areas.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In New South Wales, forest fires are also raging, and fears are entertained for huge areas of Common wealth forest plantations as the bush fires are burning at a distance of several miles from Canberra, The district around Sydney had many firebreaks, and the city became the centre of a blazing ring.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It will take some time before the total injury effected by the fires can be assessed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SOUTHERN BUSH FIRES (1939, January 21).\u00a0Dayboro Times and Moreton Mail (Qld. : 1937 \u2013 1940; 1945 \u2013 1954), p. 4. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[152,187,153,689],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}